SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING ROAD COLLISIONS WITH A HOST VEHICLE

Provided is a computer-implemented method for predicting collisions between a vehicle and one or more objects in the surroundings of the vehicle, comprising: a) acquiring information about one or more moving objects in the surroundings of the vehicle, the information comprising at least a range rate and a heading of each of the one or more objects in the surroundings of the vehicle; b) calculating one or more possible vehicle trajectories of the vehicle; c) for each object, calculating a plurality of possible object trajectories of the object from the range rate of the object, the heading of the object and a possible turn and acceleration of the object, the possible turn and/or acceleration values differing for each possible object trajectory and bound by a predetermined first confidence interval for the values; d) for each combination of calculated vehicle trajectory and object trajectory, performing a collision calculation to calculate whether the vehicle and object will be closer than a predetermined minimum distance to each other; and e) determining if, for one or more of the objects, at least a predetermined number of collision calculations indicate the vehicle and object will be closer than the predetermined minimum distance to each other.